This is the same basic recipe as the dairy laden pie and my mom and I made them at the same time. This one uses chia seeds and cashew milk to replace the dairy in the filling and oil to replace the dairy in the crust. I liked the dairy pie a little more than this one, but I would hesitate to mow through a piece if I had the chance.

Standard procedure is to halve a pumpkin, then bake it for an hour at 300 degrees, then scoop it out and puree it. I peel first (make stock from the cuttings), bake for 300 degrees for an hour, chop fine and blend it. I then add the spices and let the flavors meld for a few hours in the fridge.

Place the cashews, chia seeds and water into a blender and purée them until it looks like milk add to a bowl and whisk in the pumpkin purée until well incorporated.

Pour into pie shell and bake at 425°F for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes reduce the temperature to 350°F. Bake 40-50 minutes, or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.

Pie Shell
1 cup of very finely grated almonds (I use a food processor until its a smiliar texture to course sand) or almond meal.
3-5 tablespoons of almond oil or whatever oil you have on hand

Directions
Work the oil into the almonds until you have a damp ball. Then press it into the pie pan and work it until its flat and pie crust looking. Then put it into a 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes.

Standard procedure is to halve a pumpkin, then bake it for an hour at 300 degrees, then scoop it out and puree it. I peel first (make stock from the cuttings), bake for 300 degrees for an hour, chop fine and blend it. I then add the spices and let the flavors meld for a few hours in the fridge.

Mix sugars, salt, in a large bowl. Beat the eggs and add to the bowl. Stir in the pumpkin purée. Stir in cream. Whisk all together until well incorporated.

Pour into pie shell and bake at 425°F for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes reduce the temperature to 350°F. Bake 40-50 minutes, or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.

Directions
I work the butter into the almond meal with my hands until the butter is pretty evenly worked in. Then add the cream and work it in until its wet. Then press it into the pie pan and work it until its flat and pie crust looking. Then put it into a 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes.

Notes
One in the oven, this took a long time to set up, next time I make it, I will probably add another egg. That said, it was a great pei. The crust drew rave reviews from the crowd and the cream gives it a mouth feel superior to evaporated milk.

Roast the garlic: Heat oven to 400°F. Cut about 1 inch off the top of both heads of garlic, dot each with 1 tablespoon olive oil, wrap in foil, and roast until soft — about 45 minutes; let cool and squeeze to release the roasted.

Make the vegetable stock: I toss all the lose cuttings, onion and garlic trimmings, parsley stems, carrot tops, mushroom stems, the peel from the squash and a pumpkin peel that was going into a pie, and a cup of beet stock from another recipe. Add 8 cups of water, bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 45 minutes.

Add the remaining olive oil to a soup pot, toss in the carrots, celer and onion to sweat over medium heat for five minutes. Then work in the mushrooms for another 3 minutes. Add the stock, whine, parsley.pepper, garlic, and squash. Bring to a boil and let simmer until the squash is tender and the flavored have melded.

Notes
I used a pound of fresh crimmi, a half pound of shiitake, and a 4 ounce package of wild mushrooms that I reconstituted in a cup of the warm stock before dicing. This was a great soup, with a meaty texture from the mushrooms and great flavors. My wife found it slightly two sweet, so I would probably savory it up a bit with herbs next time. Possibly fresh chives added to the stock.

My biggest mistake was that it made so much that I could only serve and forgot to break out the second portion. I think our guests would have eaten most of it. It worked in our favor. We had it for dinner tonight with cheese sandwiches and the soup was even better after having a few days to meld.

stock coming to a simmer. I used this for the soup recipe and both the rice recipes

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Remove stems from mushrooms, dice fine, add to vegetable stock.
Bring vegetable broth to a boil in a medium saucepan.
Optional: I used an emerson blend the mushrooms into the stock once it was boiling to add body.
In a 1 1/2 quart baking dish, mix vegetable broth, uncooked wild rice, 2 tablespoons olive oil and the dried apples and cranberries.
Cover, and bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes.
While rice mixture is baking, add remaining olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Place mushrooms and onion in skillet, and slowly cook and stir until tender. Stir mushrooms and onion into the wild rice mixture, cover, and continue baking 30 minutes, or until liquid has been absorbed.

Notes
I adapted this recipe from a simple mushroom dished. After having it, I don’t think I would want the plain mushroom version. I had intended to add the dried apples, but forgot at the last minute and I think they would have made it better. If to do it again, I would add a finely chopped rib of celery and a few good twists of black pepper. Still it was good and considering I was serving a large group I could have doubled the recipe.

2 cups of red pasta sauce (I used my own)
2 cups of vegetable stock
1 cup of black-eyed peas
1 cup of navy beans
1 cup of bell pepper (I used a combo of green, red and orange)
1 cup of onion (I used .5 cup each of yellow and white)
3/4 cup of celery
1 tablespoon of ground cumin
1 Table spoon of chili powder
.5 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
I added a teaspoon of a crazy hot chili powder I made a few years ago, but I can’t tell you how to to reproduce it with violating the Geneva conventions stance on chemical weapons.
1 teaspoon of molasses
1 tablespoon of honey. I used buckwheat honey which has a strong distinctive flavor

Soak beans overnight and cook the beans. Dice the veggies fine and sweat for five minutes, stir the spices into the veggies after wards to meld and set aside for 10 minutes. Add the sauce and stock to the beans and begin to simmer. Then add the veggies, honey and molasses and let simmer for 20 minutes to allow the favors to meld.

Notes: I made this to got with corn bead from the last recipe and served it with rice prepared in vegetable stock instead of water. It was good, but hotter than expected. I need to make it again, but cut back on the homemade fire powder.

I oiled a a 10″ cask iron skillet, mixed the indrigedents in a bowl, tossed it in at 4:25 and let it cook for 15 minutes. I learned afterwards that when using apple sauce to replace eggs, baking soda generates more lift, so I need to mess with per portions.

Notes: The corn bread tasted great, but it was a little crumbly and slightly dry. A great start for a recipe I started on the fly by combing a couple of others, but I need to make it a few times to perfect it.

Our CSA has given us a lot of small russet potatoes this year and it has been a struggle to keep up with them. I did a little reading on potato pancakes because I’ve never made them before. I usually think of pancakes as the kind made from something from mashed potatoes, but I saw a suggestion on the web to make them out of grated potatoes. It was something a little different so I had a go at it.

I started by using the grating attachment on my food processor to grate a pound of potatoes. I added to that 1 each thinly cut green, orange and red banana pepper and a medium onion cut the same. A heavy grind of pepper and a heavy teaspoon of salt. Then I heated a cast iron pan with some vegetable oil and then fried them until GBD (gold brown and delicious), flipped them and did the same.

In some ways, it was just like eating shaped hash browns, taste and texture were the same, but it seemed to give a few more options than I would normally apply to hash browns. My daughter sprinkled parmesan cheese to hers, my wife doled out guacamole and would have a bit of each and I liberally spread Dusseldorf mustard on my and was much pleased with the results